Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the New York Board of Education dropped Huckleberry Finn from the list of approved textbooks for elementary and junior high school it deprived thousands of children of a chance to read one of the finest books ever written in this country and an all-time childhood classic. More important, it is an unfortunate example in minority censorship. The step, like the earlier panning of authors suspected of a pink tinge, represents a movement away from thoughtful and provocative education and toward an insipid parochialism in the public schools...
Other facets of the Republican attitude can be seen in the Registration issue of the Harvard Times. An editorial in the issue states "The person who reads this newspaper religiously (as it should be read);" as if this of any other political organ has anything to do with religion. The editorial goes on to say, "the purpose of publication was and is to present political news without a heavy partisan shading." That is, to say, with only a light partisan shading. Another editorial says "We serve two masters," the Republican party and Harvard...
...report detailing the charges, based on disclosures before the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee, was read to the convention. It took about two hours as delegates listened silently...
...close enough never to be a joke, dirty or otherwise, to him. He feels that this most celebrated of his books is as true to life in the backwashes of the rural South today as when he wrote it ("The rich are richer, the poor poorer"). Caldwell rarely reads. He argues that asking a writer if he has read any good books by other authors is "like asking a doctor if he's taken any good medicines lately." The father of four (the youngest is twelve), Caldwell will publish a children's book this fall, Molly Cottontail...
...pubs and pals until the quest finally blurs into a blue forgetfulness; in A Bachelor's Story, crusty Archie Boland comes to the belated knowledge that his one narrow escape from matrimony was actually his last chance of happiness. Author O'Connor's stories are best read individually, for taken together they show a certain sameness of ideas, treatment, even phrasing. At his worst, O'Connor slips into the bathetic romanticism of the late Donn (The Woman of the Shee) Byrne; at his best, he writes like a James Joyce who has kissed the Blarney stone...